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160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet came to perihelion on 18 September 2012, and reached about apparent magnitude 17.

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Comet.name: 160P/LINEAR
Comet.image: 160P 2019-10-31 image ZTF-sso-286-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png
Comet.caption: Comet 160P/LINEAR photographed by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 31 October 2019
Comet.discoverer: LINEAR
Comet.discovery_date: July 15, 2004
Comet.epoch: March 6, 2006
Comet.perihelion: 2.082 AU
Comet.aphelion: 5.878 AU
Comet.semimajor: 3.98 AU
Comet.eccentricity: 0.4768
Comet.period: 7.94 a
Comet.inclination: 17.2578°
Comet.last_p: December 2, 2019September 18, 2012October 12, 2004
Comet.next_p: 2027-Apr-07

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160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet came to perihelion on 18 September 2012, and reached about apparent magnitude 17.

== Orbit ==

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C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

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Astronomical objects discovered in 2004 Comets in 2012 Comets in 2019 Discoveries by LINEAR JPL Small-Body Database ID same as Wikidata Numbered comets Periodic comets

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C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)

list of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft

list of numbered comets

list of near-parabolic comets

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apparent magnitude

Comet Hale-Bopp

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list of numbered comets

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

naming of comets

161P/Hartley–IRAS

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